WORLD'S BIGGEST STEAMER
TRIAL TRIP OF THE BISMARCK.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CAISLK ASSOCIATION.) BERLIN, 29th'March.
There .was a great crowd at Hamburg to witness the departure of the 56,000----ton steamer Bismarck on her trial trip prior to being handed over to.Britain under the Peace Treaty. The Elbe,fairway had. been specially dredged for weeks. Nevertheless, the Bismarck grounded, and had to await the morning, tide. '. • .
[The Bismarck, which has been renamed Majestic, and will belong to tha White Star Line,' is the biggest ship in the world, by about 1700 tons. The next largest is the Leviathan (ex Yaterland), of 54,282, tons, taken over, from Germany by the United States, The Bismarck has been under construction since before the war.]
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1922, Page 7
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